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NICVD makes history with successful 16 hour complex heart surgery

The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Karachi, has made medical history by successfully performing a highly complex heart surgery, 'Total Arch Replacement with the Frozen Elephant ...
Nature

A Frozen Elephant Trunk Technique to Reduce Circulatory Arrest Time in Hybrid Aortic Arch for Acute Aortic Dissection: Early and Midterm Outcomes in a Multicentric Cohort of ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...
Nature

Long-term outcomes in total arch replacement combined with frozen elephant trunk for acute type A aortic dissection

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...
NPR

There’s a wrinkle — or many — in the story behind an elephant’s trunk

Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers. This all ...
The Telegraph

Study finds elephant trunk whiskers act like sensory organs, aiding touch and social behaviour

An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the roughly 1,000 whiskers covering ...